Please refer to the fact sheets on the adoption of the Community acquis.

Medium-term priority:

continuing efforts to improve the working of the judicial system and speed up the restitution of assets.

Assessment (October 1999)

No progress has been registered in this field.

Assessment (November 2000)

Slovenia has introduced some measures to speed up the restitution of assets.

Assessment (November 2001)

Slovenia has respected the settlement of border disputes with Croatia.

Assessment (October 2002)

The framework legislation for public administration reform has been adopted. Measures have been introduced to improve the functioning of the judiciary and to reduce the backlogs of court cases. However, despite these measures, the backlogs have not diminished.

Assessment (November 2003)

Please refer to the fact sheets on the adoption of the Community acquis.

Following the signing of the Accession Treaty on 16 April 2003, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia acceded to the European Union on 1 May 2004.